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Flock Now Using AI to Report to Police If Our Movement Patterns Are "Suspicious"(aclu.org)
118 points by cyberphobe 1y ago|58 comments
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
Fortunately we can use our brains to think and realize that while both sides are calling the other a danger to democracy, only one of them made a concerted effort to overturn the results of an election (an overtly anti-democratic act)
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
> all it will take to lose your democracy is for a dictator to proclaim his opponents a danger to democracy. This is true, but your framing of it as something that could be stopped if… something? is absurd
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
Except no one’s really doing that, they’re just generating outrage bait to prop up a retarded billionaire’s obviously nonsense claim that Twitter, a huge company, is (or was) secretly staffed exclusively by the far left. All evidence that h
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
I’m fine with the government shutting down anti-democratic movements. I’m not fine with anti-democratic governments shutting down legitimate discussion that looks bad on them, or serving a foreign power. These are not the same thing.
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
What am I missing then?
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
Yes, this website full of brain dead right wingers.
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
Yeah, these people are just desperately trying to generate outrage over nothing. It’s really really dumb. No need to give them too much thought
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
I didn’t notice the author, almost took this in good faith, then I got to this banger: > After all, a whole range of government agencies discredit themselves in the #TwitterFiles these people are delusional
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
I used to refuse to use those services, but then I got libredirect [1] which does a great job of decrapifying them and a lot of other anti-user websites. [1] https://libredirect.codeberg.page EDIT: I will still attempt to avoid
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
we were talking about if Elon is stupid. The answer is, obviously, yes. Being stupid has nothing to do with success, also obviously.
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
I wonder if pg still thinks Elon is "a smart guy"[1]? [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20221218210821/https://twitter.c...
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
> If they were actually concerned with people fleeing why would they do something which is more likely to make creators leave? you're asking this in a sub-thread about if Elon is smart or not? I thought the answer was obvious.
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
I don't think people are calling Elon Musk stupid because they disagree with him.
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
This is true. Wealth is what matters in this world, not intelligence.
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
Yeah it's probably that, not that everyone is fleeing Elon's $44 billion dying platform and he's is trying to stop it in whatever way he can.
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
And in the replies to this tweet he insists[1] "Elon is a smart guy" in spite of all the evidence to the contrary [1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1604557444247539712
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
Also according to Elon Musk, who hasn't even taken this down yet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
more likely non-crackpot non-conspiracy: perhaps Elon is actually just this stupid.
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
Right, it's not "making the rest of society's phone bills higher", it hurts the stock gains for shareholders. That's what I meant by "what about muh corporate profits"
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
a lot of his little projects have a wrong-message-from-scifi-distopia kind of vibe
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
slightly?
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
> rest of society's phone bills higher this implies that the price of a phone bill is connected to the price of operating the service. The price is set by what they think they can get, not how much it costs to run.
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
The discussion wasn't about perfection, it was about whether this was a "frivolous lawsuit", which it obviously is not. You probably knew this, metamann, brand new account which has only commented in this thread about how Fac
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
Lots of telco bootlicking and "what about muh corporate profits" in this thread on "hacker" news.
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
GP said "locking phones to carriers" should be illegal, not "buying a locked phone".
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
your analogy doesn't work because cars aren't locked to dealerships. If the dealer controlled how you used your car and restricted what you did with your car via some sort of artificial software limitation within the vehicle, then
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
but it doesn't seem like he did anything (morally) wrong with that access. Just helped people dodge T-Mobile's abusive practices. It would be one thing if there was like SIM swapping or something, but it doesn't look like tha
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by cyberphobe 4y ago
> The Free Press is a new media company founded by Bari Weiss this is the same crazy right winger who has been posting "The Twitter Files"

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